Building Capacity...
—> Through Becoming an
Effective Change Agent
One of our core convictions is
that we as individuals need not be leaders in order to
contribute a positive change within our organizations,
neighborhoods, and communities. We need only develop
ourselves as change agents and likewise to seek out
environments which foster and harness this ability.
The Individual as Change Agent
The first workshop
is designed to help internal change agents better
understand the richness of their own creative ideas and to
develop their influence. It also teaches the dynamics and
requirements of successful long-term change and how to use
one's own skills and power to sustain a change process
within our organizations. This includes how best to
navigate the protocols, bureaucracy, and policies and
procedures of an organization or government agency in order
to effect change.
The Changing Organization
Even in organizations
which sincerely embrace new possibilities, it's not
uncommon to find a staff so consumed in the priorities of
daily and weekly work routines that their new ideas
scarcely have a chance to bubble to the surface. In the
second workshop, then, the Center helps organizations
better recognize and benefit from the creative ideas of the
change agents on their staff. Not all change can (or
should) be adopted, of course, but the organization which
nurtures and encourages change agents to pursue new ideas
and new solutions will be much the richer for it.